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arcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith.

Made of buff leather. Goldsmith.

pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic. Milton. The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from its golden seal.

The golden plover.

Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

d clothes. The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.

ets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant] Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. Goldsmith.

st that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

quantity. [Colloq.] The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with bushels of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces. Dryden.

wfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

erb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.

A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.

Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. Golden cadence of poesy. Shak. If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence." Dr. Guest.

A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

ublication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. Goldsmith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.

nus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.